The forest was quiet, the surroundings dark. With a lantern in hand, you traveled alone through a path that was a shortcut to your home. You paid little attention to the sounds of nature. Though, you couldn’t help but feel that there was something else in the forest with you.

While deep in thought, something lunged at you from the dark out of nowhere. You were roughly tackled to the floor, and your lantern rolled off your hand.

You tried to see what got you, and in the dim light, you could see the body of a snake coiled around your legs and torso, holding you in a vice grip.

However, you felt another presence gazing down at you. As you looked up, you saw that the snake’s upper half was the body of a man with long blonde hair. His sharp, red eyes pierced through your gaze with hostility, and his fangs were bared as he sneered down at you. His forked tongue flicked out to taste the air around you.

It took you a second to realize that a naga had just tackled you to the ground. You were snapped out of your daze when his serpentine body constricted you tighter.

“What are you doing here, human?” He hissed aggressively, forked tongue flicking out again.